Mystery of the missing legion

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

There’s nothing quite like a good horror story from the distant past to put a shiver down the spine. And one of Britain’s most horrifying episodes from the Roman era was revealed in Dorset in 1936 wit

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

● HISTORY IS FULL OF “WHAT-IFS?”, perhaps nowhere ...

In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc